IX.] CORN IS APPJ.ICABLE. 



out at the door, the Captain sighed out, " Poor 

 fellow !" shook me by the hand, and off we went, 

 leaving Lachaine and Mrs. L'Epine to their 

 agreeable eclair cissement. I saw the Frenchman, 

 a few years afterwards, at Philadelphia ; he was 

 quite an altered creature, looked to be three score 

 and ten, and, withal, had got into poverty ; and I 

 have not the smallest doubt, that it was the cruel 

 disappointment that he experienced that was the 

 principal cause of this unfavourable change. Let 

 every young man remember this, and particularly 

 if he intend to have for his wife a native of New 

 England, New York, or New Jersey. As 

 Grinnell said, they will not keejJ ', they are 

 good, they are beautiful, they are kind, they 

 make dutiful, cleanly, and good-managing wives ; 

 they are virtuous towards their husbands, they 

 are excellent mothers, and are deficient in none 

 of the duties of good neighbourhood and hospi- 

 tality : but if, after arriving at the age of sixteen, 

 you once put it into their heads that you intend 

 to marry them, keep they will not. 



159. Puddings. This is an article which, 

 in England, causes a large part of the. consump- 

 tion of the whole of the wheat flour. Puddings 

 are more in fashion in England than in America. 

 They must have been of Saxon or British origin; 

 for we not only do not meet with them in France; 

 but Frenchmen, who, instead of being the most 



